His road to music originated in Queensbridge, NY in his mid-teens with partner Prodigy (the two met attending high school). With their first record deal before they were voting age, the duo chose the moniker Mobb Deep, and went on to achieve indisputably legendary status. In between were 8 album releases; with four of those ranking Top 10 on Billboard's Top 200; eight songs and a Top 10 single on the Hot 100 chart, plus 19 songs (including three Top 10s) on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop singles chart

Internationally-acclaimed Emmy Award-winning and People’s Choice Award-winning Film & Television actor, Eric Braeden is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history. For 40 years, he has portrayed "Victor Newman" on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless which airs on CBS from Sony Pictures Television.

Garfield has graced both stage and screen with such credits as THE ASTRONAUTS, directed by Star Trek franchise veteran Jonathan Frakes, and Dean Israelie. STOLEN BY MY MOTHER: THE KAMIYAH MOBLEY STORY opposite Niecy Nash, and COME TO DADDY,  VENDETTA, with a myriad of television roles including the likes of : TNT’s SNOWPIERCER, ARROW, Once Upon A Time, Bates Motel, The 100, Continuum, iZombie, Zoo, Netflix’s Travelers, Van Helsing, The Good Doctor, The Man in the High Castle, Batwoman, and J.J. Abrams’ Almost Human, amongst others. On stage he’s portrayed JUDAS in Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as DREAMGIRLS.

Likely best known for her breakout role as “Pam,” in Netflix’s Jessica Jones (opposite Krysten Ritter), Susie Abromeit, has proven herself a force to be reckoned with.   She graced the pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition, while simultaneously making her film debut as the lead in the Lionsgate film, Know Thy Enemy, playing a female rapper. Soon after, she began to book roles in films, Sydney White, Sex Drive, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Setup, alongside Bruce Willis, and the blockbuster hit Battle: Los Angeles. Additional credits include: Chicago Med, Devious Maids, One Tree Hill, as well as Tyler Perry’s, The Haves and Have Nots, Rake, Legends of Tomorrow, Code Black, Supernatural, NCIS, among many others.

While watching Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, Gallo developed a new fascination for the moving picture. "It knocked me out," he says. "Then I took a film appreciation course at college and really got hooked." Informed by the school that he would have to do his first year of studies over if he switched to a film major, Gallo dropped out instead and wrote his first screenplay.

Ky-Mani is an artist with no limits. Incorporating world music, hip hop, blues, rock, and a grass roots sound into his music, the end product is the pure representation of life for Ky-mani. The Ky-Mani Marley sound is one that transcends cultural lines and prohibits him from being categorized as only a reggae artist. His raw, unadulterated, gruff sound captures the listener and reverberates the essence of Ky-Manis life story.

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist Taj Mahal is one of the most prominent and influential figures in late 20th century blues and roots music. Though his career began more than four decades ago with American blues, he has broadened his artistic scope over the years to include music representing virtually every corner of the world: West Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the Hawaiian islands and so much more. 

Cortese first came on the scene in the 1976 cult classic gangster film The Death Collector costarring Joe Pesci. Over the next 4 decades Cortese has established himself as an actor/writer. As an actor, Joe Cortese has achieved success in film, television, and theatre.

Lee Grant is an American actress, documentarian, and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. This role earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.  

Talent, energy, dedication, discipline, passion, innovation, education, drive, mind, body, sprit, vision, honor or truth, and drums make the man Kenny Aronoff. Voted by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” and Modern Drummer named him #1 Pop/Rock Drummer and #1 Studio Drummer for five years.   

Leon Robinson, a multi-talented performer, continues to please his fans and sway newcomers with his memorable performances as an actor and singer known for Cover (2007), Little Richard (2000) and The Temptations (1998). His roles in TV shows and movies can also be seen in The Flamingo Kid (1984), Colors (1986), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Side Streets (1996), The Price of Kissing, Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, The Five Heartbeats, Resurrection Blvd. and many others.   

It took Diane Paragas 17 years to get her film The Yellow Rose on screen. On this episode of Moment 2 Moment, the Filipina filmmaker discusses all the trials and tribulations that come with getting an independent film made in the modern age and why getting it right was so important. A firm believer that releasing a bad film can be career ending, Diane discusses how she stuck to her guns when she had to, lied to an investor for the chance to get it right, and always knew that Jeff Bridges was destined to be a washed up country singer.

7-time Emmy Award Winner Ed Asner has been an enduring presence in television, film, and stage for 60 years.

Seth Savoy had an incredible teacher in legendary actor Michael Shannon. When Seth directed the actor in his debut feature film, Echo Boomers, he felt it was like taking a masterclass in consistency. In this episode of Moment 2 Moment, the up and coming director reflects on the life that led him to filmmaking, the random meetings that changed his life, and why he was so enthralled by Michael Shannon’s every move.

Eric Kissack got his early break as a film editor and spent 10 years cutting funny films in New York and Los Angeles. He had the pleasure of working on Role Models, Brüno, Cedar Rapids, The Dictator, Horrible Bosses 2, Daddy’s Home and Instant Family.

Marty Callner has directed over 200 music videos, hundreds of concert specials, comedy specials, created HBO's Hard Knocks and has won numerous Emmys. He has directed some of the biggest artists in the world.

John Patrick Shanley is an esteemed playwright, having written over 23 plays, numerous screenplays and directed for both the stage and screen alike. His play Doubt: A Parable won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. He won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Moonstruck.

Though he might be best known for his work directing smash-hit action films like The Fugitive (nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture), his themes of social justice always lay just below the surface. Guided by his internal truth-teller informed by his undergraduate journalism background, and his belief in the importance of reflecting society's realities on-screen was steadfast.

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Caleb Johnson is a Rock & Roll pastor, and with his new album, he's ready to preach to his congregation once again. A rock musician who won season 13 of American Idol in resounding fashion, Caleb couldn’t be more proud of his upcoming album — Mojo Mountain Vol 1 — and more importantly, what it took to get there.

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Mariah Carey. Usher. Alicia Keyes. Beiber. P Diddy. Who do these superstars call when they need a hit song? Adonis Shropshire, that’s who.

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Once Heidi Greensmith hopped on the filmmaking train, she knew she’d never stop. A celebrated indie screenwriter & director, like many, Heidi’s career has been chock full of unexpected twists and turns.

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For the first time, Oscar-winning production designer & director Roger Christian reveals his own personal voyage: from his earliest work in the British film industry to his breakthrough contributions on classic masterpieces such as Star Wars, Alien, and Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

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To Chef Jernard Wells food, love, and heritage are one and the same. Growing up in Mississippi, he might have spent his days working on the family farm, but he spent his nights dreaming of something much bigger. In this episode the celebrity chef and runner up on Food Network Star talks growing up in a huge family, opening his first restaurant at the tender age of 16 just so he could buy a car, and how ambition keeps him from falling to what he calls the demon of comparison. From traveling the world to the stages of Food Network to being in front of the camera for his own show, Chef Jernard has lived a life driven by big love and even bigger dreams and he is here to share that inspiration with the world.

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When the going gets tough, Ben Barbic gets going — into his music studio, that is. A graduate of the School of Hard Knocks, the up & coming singer/songwriter has taken more knocks than most, and through allowing his life to inform his art, sends back a few knocks back of his own. In this episode of Moment 2 Moment, Ben breaks down the moments that have defined his budding career thus far, the ethos of positivity and motivation he tries to maintain in his work, and the importance that his family holds in his life. Finding inspiration in everything from Guns n Roses’ Appetite for Destruction to Treach and Sizzla, Ben Barbic is rising to Opportunity. And where it doesn’t knock — he builds a door.
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From a childhood spent devouring hundreds of books deep in the frozen woods of Pennsylvania, to hunting deer just so his family could survive the winter, to marrying Purple Rain’s Apollonia, to learning how to bullfight, the life prolific Screenwriter Kevin Bernhardt has lived could fill a book of his own. Or three.

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Not many people can say that Tennessee Williams read them bedtimes stories when they were young, but that’s par for the course when you were raised around legends like Angelica Page was. In this episode of Moment 2 Moment, multi-award-winning actress Angelica Page explores her life from growing up as the only daughter of acting icons Geraldine Page & Rip Torn, growing up around the likes of Truman Capote, all the way to being mentored by Estelle Parsons, and touring her own plays.

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A living hip hop legend, Kool Moe Dee has plenty of insights & opinions on the industry he helped build -- and he ain’t afraid to share them. Covering everything from Big Business’s toxic effect on the modern-day hip-hop industry, to his decades-long friendship with Will Smith, to the evolution of his legendary feud with LL Cool J, Kool Moe Dee provides an honest, raw, and intriguing look at the growth of the hip hop world that can only come from someone who has been inside it for decades.

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Listen in as we hear how Michael Jai White went from gang shootouts in the streets of Connecticut, to the Theatre stages of New York City, moving on to make a name for himself as the baddest man in all of Hollywoodland – and evolving the brooding & bruising leading man type in the process.

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Having spent 21 years working for the NYPD (much of that time, making busts for the Undercover Narcotics Division), Nascarella learned more about high stakes “acting” than anybody this side of Donnie Brasco. From the moment he finally stepped in front of the camera at the age of 46, he found himself to be an in-demand character actor, compiling over 80 credits to his name including being cast in 9 Spike Lee Joints (and counting…)

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If you’ve ever wanted to know what it might’ve been like to trip on LSD with Salvador Dali at Studio 54, then has Ruby Mazur got a story for you! A world famous Artist & Painter, Ruby first gained international acclaim as a Grammy Award-Winning Designer of over 3,000 album covers for the most iconic bands in the history of music and with the sheer volume of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll that he found himself instantly thrown into, it’s a miracle that he can recall any of it.

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What do you get when you combine late night theatre, a buck knife, and the New York City subway? A classic Michael Corrente story, that’s what. Equally comfortable as a Writer as he is a Director, Corrente has cemented his reputation as “an Actor’s Director”, by time & again having had the finest actors in America gravitate towards his projects.

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For most people, an Instagram shout out from the #1 movie star on the planet to his nearly quarter-billion person following would be the highlight of their life; but to a former enforcer for the Gambino Crime Family constantly looking over his shoulder, it’s just the only highlight of his morning. Enter “Tarzan” Fainberg — the magnanimous NY mobster turned Miami strip club owner. Turned Creator of successful children’s animation Barbariki. Chutzpah? Tarzan lathers in it.

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When dealing with the violent loss of a loved one, a gangster gets revenge but a true artist gets to writing. And that’s just one of a series of crucial Moments of Decision that forever altered the life of Academy Award-winning Writer, Director, and Producer Bobby Moresco. In this episode of Moment To Moment, the man behind Oscar-winning films like Crash and Million Dollar Baby poignantly shares both his professional path.

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High school dropout Danny Seraphine, thought his dreams of a life in Music had slipped through his fingers. This is the implausible tale of how one of the most gifted & instinctual drummers in Rock N Roll history almost traded his drumsticks for the street life. But when Fate came calling (in the form of Dick Clark), Danny found himself able to turn his life around and went on to help form the legendary band CHICAGO — selling over 120 million albums, and becoming one of best-selling bands of all time in the process.

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Your typical Hollywood Action Star has never lived in a refugee camp, but then again having first started his career as an MMA World Champion, Cung Le’s life has been anything but typical. On this episode of Moment To Moment, the actor and martial artist shares everything from the breathtaking tale of his family’s harrowing escape from Vietnam moments before the fall of Saigon, to growing up in a small home with 14 people, and most formatively: to being bullied as a small Asian kid.

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Mo Kheir would like you to write a recommendation for his green card application. The accomplished Comedian, Musician, Architect, and Sudanese-New Zealander comes from a long line of impressive people — a legacy he’s acutely aware of, and actively trying to live up to. In this episode, Mo breaks down how his background in Architecture helps inform not only his unique approach to writing music, but writing jokes as well.

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Tony Schumacher survived one of the worst accidents in drag racing history. His thoughts on it? Working an office job still terrifies him more. In this episode of Moment to Moment the most successful drag racer in NHRA history shares the importance of having a good team around you, growing up in the shadow of his father: legendary driver Don Schumacher. Buckle up, as Tony shares just what it feels like to power an engine that accelerates faster than any automobile, jet, or space shuttle ever invented.

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